by Monique du Toit Several local
apps have popped up in the prop tech landscape.
Hundreds of fake retail and product
apps have popped up in Apple's App Store over the last few weeks, just in time for the holiday season.
Over the past year or so, several smartphone addiction intervention
apps have popped up in the iOS App Store and Google Play.
Not exact matches
Dating
app Bumble also
had a
pop - up at SXSW, which allowed visitors to walk through real - life manifestations of the
app's three platforms: Bumble Bizz, Bumble BFF and Bumble Date.
For the past few years, three major
apps have emerged that seem to
pop up more often.
Once you
've done all this, the
app will
pop up with a QR code.
By Day 18 or so, I
'd dialed the
app's
pop - up bliss - o - meter to a whopping 92.
The
pop - up box disappears and you now
have the Event
app showing where all of your
apps appear on your Timeline.
Now comes a partnership between online retail and reselling giant eBay and 3 -
D startups MakerBot, Sculpteo and Hot
Pop Factory to create eBay Exact, an iOS
app that allows users to browse and buy custom - created merchandise.
Auto
app updating: Keeping
apps up to date on an iOS device is like playing whack - a-mole — just as soon as you
've updated a few, more of those damn red notification circles
pop up.
As you hover over each listed
app, you'll see two little icons
pop up: a pencil and an X. Click the pencil, and it will show you a dialogue indicating what permissions you
've given the
app.
Google on Wednesday said it
would begin penalizing the search rankings of websites that use
pop - up mobile ads asking users to install an
app, the latest move by the company that could
have a big impact on advertisers, publishers and other content creators.
For example, imagine you
have a row of tabs on the main part of your
app, and whenever you hover over one, it
pops up, growing bigger and changing colors dynamically.
I
've played several of them, and am always blown away by the numbers that appear on the screen: «Cash Show» consistently draws more than 100,000 players and gives away a total of $ 20,000 a day on weekends ($ 9,000 on weekdays); «The Q,» a hilariously ramshackle
app out of Charleston, South Carolina, gets approximately 10,000 players going for as little as $ 100 per quiz; «Quiz Biz,» on the popular live - streaming
app Live.me, gives away up to $ 50,000 — a
pop — to tens of thousands of players.
Have ads of motorbike parts
popped up on your phone, YouTube account or
app just after a Google search for motorbike?
Apps devoted to live video streaming
have popped up recently as well, adding a new dimension to the «crowdsourced newsroom» function of popular platforms like Twitter.
There is an
app from Baby Shusher (the same company that makes the gadget) that you can get for your smart phone, but I
've seen a bunch of negative reviews with people complaining about ads
popping up, it freezing in the middle of shushing, or just crashing completely.
Just visit the
app store for whichever device you
have and search «Bowflex Max Trainer» and it should be the first organic result that
pops up.
I think Jean from Extra Petite
has or
had this coat, because her photos
popped up when I was looking for it online to enter into my Stylebook
app.
You know how you log into your dating sites and
apps, to check out any fresh blood that may
have popped up in the 27 minutes since the last time you peeked?
BUSINESS INSIDER - July 24 - We
've got new
apps popping up every day: Coffee Meets Bagel, Hook, Pinch, Instamour, Wyldfire, Whim, Floret... Online dating can often be frustrating, which in turn leads to more willingness to try new
apps.
For the
apps, the perks come in the form of micro-transactions that allow you to see more singles, recover profiles that you
've already rejected, or make your profile
pop - up higher on other people's lists.
And if the
app isn't available in your area yet, Exton said you can still be active in the Dattch community through the blog, which includes articles about
pop culture, LGBT news and even sex toy reviews, or events like Stitch and Bitch, where Dattch employees and users knit,
have a few drinks and vent about their problems that day.
Everytime you're near someone irl (who
has the
app), their profile will
pop up.
This hookup
app has some unique features, like Shake to Chat - you shake your phone and someone random will
pop up for a chat!
In the best of worlds, Mustanski
would like to see
pop up prompts on dating
apps that provide GPS - directed information on where a person can receive free or low - cost STD testing.
91 million people around the world
have used an online dating
app, and with a new one
popping up almost every day, that... (read more)
It seems like almost every day a new dating
app pops up on iTunes and Google Play, so we
've zeroed in on the three that we know you'll
have the most success with:
Apps have also been
popping up in large quantities, so there is no shortage of choices.
Ms. Spira, who
has made a career out of helping singles improve their online profiles, says
apps such as Tinder are «
popping up everywhere.»
If you're hardcore enough to
have a New Zealand iTunes account for all the iOS releases the second they hit the
App Store or you just so happen to live in New Zealand, you're in luck - Civilization Revolution 2 just
popped up in your part of the world.
Well, we're not quite at November 1st just yet, at least in our part of the world, but Final Fantasy Dimensions II [$ 9.99]
has decided to
pop up in the
App Store a day earlier than expected.
Direct launch of modules, enhanced access to knowledge centers, randomized questions for offline assessments, and
pop - up window capabilities
have all been included in the new version of NetDimensions» market - leading mobile learning
app, Talent Slate.
A Qeyno «hackathon» is a weekend - long
pop up school that gathers youth to build
apps by forming teams that include their peers, professional coders (computer programmers), designers (artists), and innovators (problem solvers and content experts) to rapidly prototype an idea — whose time
has come.
More users may
have concerns about being unable to disable the routine, often meaningless, notifications from
apps (not texting
apps) that
pop up and, at least initially, can't be disabled.
It
has proximity censors, so when you move your hand close everything is a little bit bigger and that kinda
pops up and gives you few more options What you also get with it, is what Volkswagen calls
app connect which is it's own proprietary system of connecting your phone and your infotainment system to just kind of expand it's ability.
You might
have seen this message
pop - up occasionally when using a news
app or an e-reading
app.
Tip: I
had to call Apple Support on this one because a default event named 3-21-15 already existed in the
app, and the
pop - up simply
would not let me change it.
I didn't think so either so I also tried to download an
app for it, but about two weeks after I got my kindle I was going to my photos and at the top right hand corner was a little camera button and it just seemed to
pop up out of nowhere because I
had checked before!
My children live in a world where video games are inextricably embedded into
pop culture: a new movie means a corresponding
app, a new toy will be the star of a game before it
has ever seen a retail shelf.
The purchase
pops you out of the
app to iTunes, and there doesn't seem to be any simple way to get back to the
app afterwards; you
have to exit iTunes and re-open the
app.
The notification that
pops up when you get a new email doesn't open your inbox, but instead opens another
pop up letting you know you
have a new message, which finally leads to the Messages
app.
While there are a few more steps involved, here are the basics: You simply copy a few files to an SD card,
pop the SD card into your Nook Tablet, reboot the device, and just like that, you
've got a regular Android tablet complete with Google
apps and the Android Market.
The PB
app currently doesn't
have that, except for the menu button
pop - up at the bottom of the screen.
The images don't show on the
pop - up in the middle of the screen — maybe they
have to be set up as thumbnails — and I can't get the
app to launch to download comics from the internet; there's always an error.
webOS also
has a great notifications feature, a small alert that
pops up at the bottom of the screen when you
have an incoming call, text message, or e-mail, but that alert comes up without interrupting the
app you
have open (similar to Google Android).
The developer of the popular game
Pop Corny
has been quick to update the
app with support for the Passport and it...
The leaked images show that Huawei
has redesigned all
app icons to be squares with rounded edges, and display colors that
pop.
It also
has multiple - windows multitasking as well as
pop - up window tasking which enables you to run multiple
apps at once.
That means it doesn't
have the sharpness that more expensive rivals offer, so text, pictures and
apps don't
have the visual
pop that they
would on an iPad mini for example.